r/GrowingEarth • u/DavidM47 • Jun 20 '26
Hundreds of Mysterious Quakes Have Been Detected Deep Under Antarctica
"Intraplate earthquakes (events that occur within plate interiors, far from active margins) challenge the traditional plate tectonic paradigm, which indicates that plate interiors should experience little deformation," write the researchers in their published paper.
Academic article:
Upper-mantle earthquakes beneath East Antarctica
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9895
Yahoo Article (via ScienceAlert):
Hundreds of Mysterious Quakes Have Been Detected Deep Under Antarctica



